What's the difference between ingracious and ungracious?
Ingracious
Definition:
(a.) Ungracious; unkind.
Example Sentences:
Ungracious
Definition:
(a.) Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
(a.) Having no grace; graceless; wicked.
(a.) Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored.
Example Sentences:
(1) And then, a little ungraciously but we can't help ourselves because it's so much fun, a cheer when Dimitrov double-faults.
(2) "I don't want to be ungracious, but it's frankly not enough to pop up now and say: 'We'll do something about English language teaching'.
(3) Among Main's (1957) several cogent insights about the nature of defensive and countertransferential reactions to those so-called "special" patients who ungraciously refuse to improve - patients who in today's parlance would most assuredly be diagnosed as borderline - is his hypothesis that some of us may flee some of the time into research activities to avoid the frustrations and disappointments of clinical work.
(4) A spokesman for Waterstones, Jon Howell, called the critical reaction "ungracious sniping" and said Barnes was a worthy winner.
(5) But appearing in front of the media after the match, Kyrgios spoke of his own frustrations with his game, and sought to explain that ungracious sounding comment.
(6) Perhaps there is some odd flaw in his judgment of people – he had also been rather ungracious to those who had opposed his original selection as MEP in the east Midlands, such as the Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes whom he had sacked as housing spokesman.
(7) "It would feel ungracious to be carping about it, but it's very hard to know how to respond.
(8) Wenger declined to shake hands with Hughes after his Arsenal team were beaten by City at Eastlands at the start of this month, prompting Hughes to describe him as an ungracious loser.
(9) It was perhaps ungracious of Tarantino to bellow: "I'm here to sell my movie!
(10) Whelan said David Miliband's exit from the shadow cabinet was ungracious.
(11) "It would be ungracious of me not to congratulate UKRD on its victory and I wish UKRD well," said Gumbiner.
(12) Arriving onstage to collect this second award he ungraciously asked why the show hadn't been nominated in the comedy category too.